Students of Meditation

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DEAR YOU, ✨
by the end of next week I will TAKE DOWN ALL ONLINE COURSES that students of meditation currently offers. It has been very tough on me, but here is why:

I've invested a lot of time, energy and money into building this online school. I've tried to make the best out of the whole COVID-situation, offering what I can in order to help and inspire people while moving my business online.

Even though a fair group of students followed me into the online world and many new ones found me in the beginning of the year (when URBAN SPORTS CLUB still allowed me to offer meditations online), now I am stepping back from all of it.

Being online so much, "selling" meditation, always being chased to do more, show more, sell more, is not something that feels good for me or that I want to do day in and day out. It doesn't reward me personally.

In this "spiritual" online market I see many "teachers" selling high-frequencies and well-meant-concepts, "goddesses"-workshops or glossy new-age-prophecies about how now is the time that LOVE will overthrow everything false and if you're not part of the chosen people, you will be doomed. Just random examples, I am sure you've seen stuff like that.

I also see a lot of great, fancy pictures of beautiful men and women, I read a lot of well written texts (especially from a psychological perspective) and notice so many opportunities that come my way to "COMPLETELY TRANSFORM" my life within a week or month. Well, okay.

I've tried my bit as well, and I hated it. To me it was always important that SOM is NOT about esoteric make-believes, spiritual concepts or a glossy display of new-age-prophecies, that are flooding social media from every corner.

It wasn't always easy, because of course I was also selling something. Only to me, what I am selling doesn't feel as glorious, transformative, glossy as most of those other offerings though - or at least I resist to sell it that way. Because what I am selling is simple: PRACTICE.

Dry, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable, unwarranted outcomes day-in and day-out PRACTICE.

I didn't want to predict how your life turns out when you practice more regularly, because I DONT KNOW.
I didn't want to claim my ways as THE BEST WAYS for you, because I don't know that either.
I just wanted to help you find practices that work for you, so you knew how to do it and how to look upon it, by yourself or with others.

It didn't work so well for me actually. If modern day marketing is rewarding me for being more self-righteous about myself, more aggressive towards my potential clients and more glorifying about my work, then it doesn't work for me.

I've spent many many hours chasing, trying to assimilate to the "online-ways", and spend a lot of money to set everything up and advertise it. But in the end I guess I just failed - and I am not completely unhappy about it.

From now on I won't offer meditation online anymore, but look within what I want to do instead. Actually sitting on that porch doing nothing for a while would be the most precious thing to me anyway.

I am very grateful for everyone who meditated with me, live or in person, and to everyone who signed up for the online courses.
(You can still enroll until the 27th of November btw. This is - for real - your last chance now. After that the courses won't be accessible anymore.)

I wish you a very good time, see you again
Ben
from students of meditation

LET'S BE CLEAR RIGHT AWAY. ✨

Students of Meditation is an online school that helps you to explore basic practices of meditation, to clear out misconceptions and to attain states of silence / spaciousness / depth.

It is NOT about esoteric make-believes, spiritual concepts or a glossy display of new-age-prophecies, that are flooding social media nowadays.

If you are interested in exploring meditation for real, this is for you.

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I HELP YOU ...

To be more GROUNDED in your body.
To attain states of SILENCE and SPACIOUSNESS.
To DEAL WITH BASIC CHALLENGES that you will face in your practice.
To JOIN A WAY OF PRACTICE that doesn’t depend on comfort, concepts or apps.


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ARE YOU ...

Willing to try it for yourself?
To devote 30 minutes every day for six weeks? Three month? One year?
Are you curious to practice "being here" regardless of the circumstance?

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YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN STUDENTS OF MEDITATION
AND EXPLORE MEDITATION IN YOUR OWN LIFE.

How is your practice going these days?
Let me know if you like 🙏

Homepage Students of Meditation is an online school that helps you to explore basic practices of meditation, to clear out misconceptions and to attain states of silence / spaciousness / depth.

Here we go again. ✨
Stay healthy, open and creative everyone. 🙏
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You know that one of the most effective methods to move from the "Fear zone" into the "Learning Zone" into the "Growth Zone" is meditation, right?

It supports ...
the grounding of your BODY
the clarity of your MIND
the openness of your HEART
and the balance of your NERVOUS SYSTEM.

All of which are prerequisites of being healthy, open and creative in the midst of crisis.

You probably know that, but perhaps you still don't practice regularly. Right?

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Well, now is the time to develop a meditation practice that truly works for you. If you start today, follow a couple of practices and continue for ONE MONTH, can you imagine yourself in four weeks? Do you think it could support you for the better?

And you really don't (!) have to do it alone (!). Help is already here.

ARE YOU READY?

See you inside,
Ben from Students of Meditation

Meditation - Essential Course Are you willing to become an explorer of meditation, truly applying and experimenting with the practices provided here? 

WHEN TIMES ARE STRESSFUL, I rely on my internal and external resources to make it through. In terms of energy, there are - simply said - two types of internal resources: The first one is the energy that I have running through me freely, the second one is the energy stored in me, which we could call my battery. If my free energy gets drained too much, my body will start to free the energy of my battery and hopefully that will get me through the stressful time.

Now, when that time has come to an end, I have a natural need to slow down and to refill my battery. If I don’t allow that to happen, in other words if I don’t consciously engage in refilling myself in ways that really nourish my sense of presence, relaxation, openness, connection, belonging, I risk to continuously running on low battery. If I do that for too long, at some point I am gonna „burn out“.

Meditation can help in two ways. Firstly it can be a great helper in refilling our batteries once they are drained. Secondly it can help us to ground our experience in our bodies while we go through stressful times, so we digest more stress in between and don’t have to drain our batteries as much.

10 min are enough to make a difference.

Therefore I’ve uploaded a FREE 10-MIN-GROUNDING Meditation to soundcloud just now. Whenever you need to, just listen to it and ground yourself. It’s easy, it works, and I believe we all need it now and then.

Happy Weekend everyone.
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Grounding Meditation - 10min In this Grounding Meditation you will be guided into your body, to pause for a moment, whenever needed. The meditation is restful and simple. Moreover, it allows you to unclinch your mind and let tens